Clay triple-lines
The clay triple-lines is a small moth with three thin lines across each front wing. Its colour changes with the season. The spring moths are pale brown to orange, and the summer ones are a pretty rose red.
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Fun facts
The middle one of its three wing lines is the widest.
Its caterpillar is slim, smooth and pale green, with little yellow spots on its back.
Its eggs are pale yellow at first and then get red markings.
It is very hard to tell apart from a few close cousins, such as the maiden's blush moth.
The moths fly from May to July, depending on where they live.
Most asked questions about Clay triple-lines
?What does the clay triple-lines eat?
Its caterpillars eat beech leaves.
?Why does the clay triple-lines change colour?
Two sets of moths hatch each year. The first ones are pale brown to orange, and the second ones are rose red.
?How big is the clay triple-lines?
Its wings are about 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclophora linearia
- Named by
- Hübner, 1799
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cyclophora linearia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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